Kernel panicked after windows reinstalled....help please..

Prakash Jose Kokkatt <[email protected]> Sat, 26 Nov 2005 20:39:12 +0530
Newsgroups gmane.org.region.india.fsug-kochi
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hello,
 I reinstalled win XP and lost sarge 3.1.after reinstall partition order
changed as below.partition tables rearranged...
first sarge was on /dev/sda7 now changed to /dev/sda8.swap earlier at sda6
is now at sda7....i restored the grub,edited fstab,mtab for sarge
accordingly:
here's the panic message

> scsi0 :ata_piix
> ATA: abnormal status 0x7F on port 0xE007
> ata2 : disabling port
> scsi1 :ata_piix
> Vendor:ATA Model:ST380013AS Rev:3.18
> Type: Direct-Access ANSI scsi revision:05
> ide:Assuming 33Mhz system bus speed for PIO modes;override with idebus=xx
> scsi device sda:156301488 512-byte hdwr sectors (80026 MB)
> scsi device sda:drive cace:write back
> scsi device sda:156301488 512-byte hdwr sectors (80026 MB)
> scsi device sda:drive cace:write back
> sda: sda1 sda2 < sda5 sda6 sda7 sda8 sda9 sda10 sda11 > sda3
> Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0,channel0,id0,lan0
> VFS:Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev sda7.
> mount:wrong fs type,bad option,bad superblock on /dev/sda7,
> missing code page or other error
> In some cases useful info is found in syslog -try
> dmesg |tail or so.
> Switching root ...
> /usr/lib/yaird/exec/run_init ; current directory on the same filesystem as
> root:Success
> kernel panic -not syncing:Attempted to kill
>
> init!
>
>  as you can see the kernel is searching for ext3 on /dev/sda7 while sda8
now contains sarge and sda7 is swap
Also my /etc/fstab

> root@ubuntu:/home/prakash# fdisk -l
>
> Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sda1   *           1         625     5020281    7  HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/sda2             626        6269    45335430    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
> /dev/sda5             626        1221     4787338+   b  W95 FAT32
> /dev/sda6            1222        1532     2498076    b  W95 FAT32
> /dev/sda7            1533        1666     1076323+  82  Linux swap /
> Solaris
> /dev/sda8   *        1667        3003    10739421   83  Linux
> /dev/sda9            3004        4567    12562798+   b  W95 FAT32
> /dev/sda10           4568        5600     8297541   83  Linux
> /dev/sda11           5601        6269     5373711   83  Linux


 root@ubuntu:~# vi /mnt/debian/etc/fstab
> # /etc/fstab: static file system information.
> #
> # <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
> proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
> /dev/sda8       /               ext3    defaults,errors=remount-ro 0
>  1
> /dev/sda7       none            swap    swap            0       0
> /dev/hda        /media/cdrom0   iso9660 ro,user,noauto  0       0
> /dev/hdb        /media/cdrom1   iso9660 ro,user,noauto  0       0
> /dev/fd0        /media/floppy0  auto    rw,user,noauto  0       0
>
> /dev/sda1       /mnt/win_C      ntfs    defaults        0       0 r0
> /dev/sda3       /mnt/suse      reiserfs defaults        0       0
> /dev/sda5       /mnt/win_D      vfat    defaults        0       0
> /dev/sda6       /mnt/win_E      vfat    defaults        0       0
> /dev/sda9       /mnt/rhel       ext3    defaults        0       0
> /dev/sda10      /mnt/win_F      vfat    defaults        0       0
> /dev/sda11      /mnt/ubuntu     ext3    defaults        0       0
>

  I got Ubuntu breezy through which i can access mounted sarge
debian...urgent help needed.....
why debian searches for /dev/sda7 which is now swap for installed?Please
help.....

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